Hey everyone, welcome to the Conversations

that Matter podcast. I want to bring you a quick episode. It's kind of

a depressing episode but very eye opening on plagiarism in Christian circles.

We know this happens in the world. We know if you've been in any academic setting.

plagiarism is a problem. In fact, when I was doing online teaching for a

university, we had software that would try to detect plagiarism and then I would have to

confront it and I did have many cases of it

and well aware of what it is how it works and in general the definition that most

would agree on when it comes to plagiarism is it is using other

people's material without attribution and by material that's the specific

wording that they use.

It could in some ways, I mean if you use bullet points, let's say,

and you're organizing information, use their exact same bullet points

to organize information that could be considered that in some ways

as well, but again it's using the same categories, words, that's what plagiarism is. So, we've talked about this with the docent stuff. We've talked

about how JD Greer has used docent and some Keller and a number of other

famous preachers have used docent. And this created a problem for the current president of the Southern Baptist

Convention, Ed Litton, when he problem for the current president of the Southern Baptist Convention

Ed Litton when he started preaching sermons and I think there's been over 10 now

that are eerily similar in fact because they're verbatim just about sermons from JD Greer he's just

preaching them he also preached one from Tim Keller him and his wife Tim Keller sermon

and acted like it was his So that's an issue that got exposed and I think many people thought well

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